[jobim]

You all should investigate Holocaust by Bullets by a French priest who has been uncovering the story of the Nazi slaughtering of Jews in the Ukraine, village by village.

They would drive into the village with a list of the Jews, press local Ukrainians into service clearing land somewhere adjacent to the town, dig a mass grave, line them up, and kill them one by one, one bullet per to keep costs down. Each night the grave would be covered.

Many of the people now giving eyewitness testimony, having kept it in secret all these years, remember the ground moving: many were still alive.

Often tables would be set up right next to these graves where the Nazis would eat and drink through the night.

The murders numbered at least a million by estimates at this point. The Ukraine has suffered tragically with this and under Stalin's genocide. I teach high school and there is an adopted Ukrainian girl in my class who may be returning this summer for the first time. She has a deep connection and drinks in all information about this tragic land.

I cover the starvation holocaust and the trip by Duranty to whitewash Stalin's attrocities in World History, and I always ask students to go home and ask their parents why no one knows of this.

[packrat35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

[tet68]

A good book if you can find it is “Execution by hunger.”
by Miron Dolot, a first person account of collectivisation
and the terror famine.

Note the collectivization was started by “community activists” entering the villages and getting a few
villagers to join, then forcing them to coerce the
others. The government during the famine also
had special stores that took gold in exchange for
food. Of course when the villagers returned home
the Komsomol was waiting for them to search their
homes for “the rest of the gold”.
villagers were reduced to cannabalism during the
worst of the winter.
Dolot lays it all out in the open.